English Dictionary

cinnabar

/ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/

noun

A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. / A bright red colour tinted with orange.

Cinnabar is a deep red mineral commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine.

意味（1）

A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.

意味（2）

A bright red colour tinted with orange.

cinnabar:

意味（3）

(countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.

There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

意味（4）

(in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.